Q

Where do you reside?

A

Coopersville.

Q

What is your business?

A

Physician and surgeon.

Q

How long have you practiced?

A

19 years.

Q

Are you a graduate of any school?

A

Yes sir; St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis, Missouri.

Q

Are you a regular registered physician in the State of Michigan?

A

Yes sir.

Q

Did you ever see Martin Golden?

A

Yes sir.

Q

Did you see him on the night of the 23^rd day of April?

A

Yes sir; when he was in bed.

Q

Did you make any examination of his person to ascertain as to what wounds were on his body, if any?

A

Yes sir.

Q

Just describe to the jury what you found.

A

Well, I took my sound and went into the bullet hole and that was straight into him; so then after that I saw another opening below; I went and sounded that and I couldn’t go through that.

Q

Describe on your own person, approximately, where these wounds that you found were located.

A

The first bullet, from my description, went straight through the head.

Q

Whereabouts on the head?

A

Just about below the median line. (witness indicating.)

Q

On the left side, wasn’t it, doctor?

A

Yes, it was on this side.

Q

On the right side?

A

I think right in here, to the right side of it; he was laying this way; (indicating) I think it was on the right side, I couldn’t fully swear to that.

Q

Where did you find the other wound?

A

The other?

Q

Yes.

A

I sounded that; I couldn’t go straight through.

Q

What appearance did that have?

A

The other?

Q

Yes.

A

Kind of rough inside.

Q

I mean the one aboe.

A

Kind of ragged.

Q

Did it have the appearance of a bullet having struck there and glanced off?

A

Yes sir.

Q

As tough it struck and glanced off?

A

It might have been that, because it was a slanting wound, it was not a straight wound.

Q

That one did not penetrate the skull?

A

That is the way it seemed to me, it did not penetrate.

Q

You could not insert a sound at that time?

A

No, I could not sound it at all.  When I get down the sound it seemed to me a rough appearance - - a rough wound or rough surface in the skull, and I sounded right and left and I couldn’t go through.

Q

As to whether or not you found a bullet at all in the man’s body.

A

No sir; the first bullet I am sure went straight through, because I went a little further than the skull itself, and I could outline the course of the bullet a little.

Q

As to whether or not the bullet left the skull.

A

That is left in there at all?

Q

That is in there?

A

Yes sir.

Q

Were you present when this man died?

A

Yes sir.

Q

You were there then at that time.

A

Yes sir.

Q

You may state, doctor, what caused his death.

A

Well, he appeared to be in good shape quite a little while but at once blood went through inside and went in his throat and that blood from his throat went in his lung and in that way suffocated him.

Q

That suffocated him?

A

Yes sir.

Q

As to whether or not the man died from the bullet wound or a congestion of blood super induced by the return of the blood

A

He died from the bleeding of the wound which run in his lung, because I went in there with my little swab and dipped up fresh blood - - which is fresh flowing blood.

Q

As to whether or not you would say the man died from the effects of this shot or anything else.

A

He died from the effect of the shot.

Q

Death in your opinion was caused by a bullet wound inflicted by a person unknown to you?

A

Unknown, I don’t know the person.

Q

Do you know that Martin Golden was buried?

A

Yes, I know that because I was at the funeral.

Q

You saw him buried?

A

No sir, I didn’t go there; I was at his service.

Q

You are able to testify the man is dead?

A

Oh, yes sir, I know he died.

Q

About what time in the day did he die?

A

About three o’clock in the morning.

Q

The morning of the 24th?

A

Yes sir.

Q

Have you made any examination of his person or body since that time?

A

Since the - -

Q

Since the morning of the 24^th.

A

No sir, since then not; since his death I didn’t never see the man.

Mr. Pagelsen: That is all.